Re: injecting options and parameters into XProc

Jim,

> let me try to explain the use case I would like;
> 
> I would like to be able to set option values via commandline e.g. this
> allows the computing environment to set their own defaults at runtime.
> 
> one can set default values of p:option in declare-step but this means
> the original xproc author is embedding how they see steps running (in
> all environments); Xproc should be made easy to use by non-xproc folks
> to execute.

The author of a pipeline can define their pipeline to accept options, 
and then pass those along when they invoke the declared step.

<p:pipeline name="example">
   <p:option name="command-line-option" />

   <ex:step name="example-step">
     <p:option name="step-option" select="$command-line-option" />
   </ex:step>
</p:pipeline>

Which options they choose to expose in this way is up to them.

In what way doesn't this address your requirement?

Jeni
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